A recently introduced piece of legislation in California's State Senate is targeting Golden State teenagers and young adults as a way to combat wider concerns about stoned drivers, despite a lack of accepted science or data supporting the bill.

"It's important because we want to make sure that minors do not use marijuana and drive," Hill said in a prepared statement after filing the bill. "This makes marijuana use consistent with alcohol use and it reiterates the message that driving under the influence of any drug is unacceptable, risky, and dangerous."

"[SB1273] will do nothing to make the roads safer, nor to reduce youth drug abuse," Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "What it will do is encourage cops to conduct random screenings of young drivers without any evidence of dangerous driving and grab their licenses for no good reason."

In the bill itself, Hill imagines California Highway Patrol officers using "oral swabs or chemical field tests" to determine whether a driver is under the influence of weed. But despite ongoing research and localized trials, the LA Times reports that no such product has been approved for use by California highway cops.

"We don't have a device in the field to measure impairment by cannabis," Richard Desmond, an assistant chief for the California Highway Patrol, told legislators this week.

As municipalities and states around the country continue to make strides in cannabis reform, drugged driving and roadway safety have understandably emerged as hot-button post-prohibition issues. But without proper research and data, legislators and law enforcement will continue to criminalize cannabis use, whether it affects a person's driving ability or not.

"California is not suffering a crisis of pot-impaired kids on the road," Gieringer told the Chronicle. "DUI arrests and youth cannabis use are down, and accident rates are stable in California."

SB1273 has been officially introduced in the California State Senate, but cannot be acted on for at least another month, hopefully giving Golden State legislators enough time to see the errors in Hill's presumptuous bill.